Academic Bio:

Tina Beattie left her post as Professor of Catholic Studies at the University of  Roehampton in London in 2020 and now works as an independent researcher and writer. She has published extensively on sacramentality, desire, embodiment, and gender, engaging with psychoanalytic theory and art history as well as theology in her research. She has a particular interest in Marian theology, art, and devotion.

 

In addition to numerous journal articles and book chapters, her publications include A Theology of Becoming: Body, Blood, Birth, and Sacrament (Cambridge University Press, Elements Series, forthcoming); Theology After Postmodernity: Divining the Void (Oxford University Press 2013); The New Atheists: The Twilight of Reason and the War on Religion (Darton, Longman & Todd, 2007); New Catholic Feminism: Theology and Theory (Routledge, 2006); God's Mother, Eve's Advocate: A Marian Narrative of Women's Salvation (Continuum, 2002). In addition to her academic publications, Tina is a published novelist and a regular contributor to the media, including BBC Radio 4's "Thought for the Day".

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Tina is founder and facilitator of the international women's network, Catholic Women Speak.  She works with academic and educational groups and projects to promote the role of women in church and society. She has recently taken on the role of co-Director of the Sophia Institute based in Namibia, which offers in-person and online courses in leadership, pastoral formation and theology for women religious in sub-Saharan Africa. ​​